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Carbon neutrality of low-cost telco Belong relies almost solely on buying overseas offsets, and how an Institute of Public Affairs fellow misread the Great Barrier Reef

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Telstra’s low-cost mobile and internet company Belong is in the middle of a nationwide advertising campaign that’s memorable for its imagery of a sliced-off bloodless thumb crawling up a snow-driven mountain.

“The average Australian is estimated to scroll the height of Everest on their phone every month. That’s why we proudly offset our network emissions,” the advert declares.

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Market experts are clashing in their views as to where EU carbon prices go next, with the bears amongst them predicting a possible re-test of last year's lows while the bulls foresee another go at the €100 level before the year's out.

The clean-up begins after catastrophic flooding that has left tens of thousands of people homeless in north-east Italy. Rising waters swallowed houses and landslides isolated hamlets

• ‘Roads have disappeared’: Italy begins cleanup after catastrophic floods

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*PREMIUM LISTING - The WCS Cambodia program is growing rapidly! We are expanding our team and are looking for applications from qualified candidates to fill the following position.  Detailed job description of the position is attached.

US President Joe Biden's EPA has a strong legal basis for allowing states to implement emissions trading schemes such as RGGI and WCI to comply with its proposed emissions limits on fossil fuel-fired electricity generators, while technology forcing should also stand up to court scrutiny, experts told Carbon Pulse.

Rainforest Builder’s Forest Carbon Lead will be critical to the company’s success, providing specialist technical expertise and analysis and turning forest restoration opportunities into registered carbon removal projects. You will thus lead the carbon asset development process through to registration and validation.

*PREMIUM LISTING - The position will engage with WCS’s efforts across regional and country programs to address the current and future threats to biodiversity and habitat integrity primarily from the unsustainable production of agricultural commodities in these jurisdictions.

California gasoline and diesel sales dropped year-on-year in February amid recession concerns and a pick-up in gasoline prices, according to state data published Tuesday.

California this week distributed the highest number of compliance offsets in over a year, with the vast majority of the credits under the cap-and-trade programme accruing to an in-state forestry project, according to government data published Wednesday.

Pennsylvania's attempt to enact its RGGI-linked cap-and-trade regulation faced another skirmish at the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on Wednesday, as both the state and environmental groups appealed the Commonwealth Court's preliminary injunction against the rule that opponents have painted as an illegal tax.

Members of the European Parliament are experiencing what they called 'fatigue' in a week stacked full of green policy scrutiny across several cross-party committees, as borne out in an interim Wednesday ballot that saw lawmakers weaken text for a bill designed to curb industrial air pollution. 

US-based Boom Supersonic, which is developing faster-than-sound passenger aircraft, has signed an agreement with Dimensional Energy to purchase up to 5 million gallons of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) annually during its flight test programme.

California electricity sector CO2 output sagged over the last two months of the first quarter as hydroelectric generation ramped up following an end to much of the state’s historic drought, recent data showed.

The environmental impacts of electric vehicle batteries range from mining, and energy and water use to the hazards of discarded batteries. These issues can be resolved, but there’s no time to waste. Mehdi Seyedmahmoudian, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology Alex Stojcevski, Dean of School of Science, Computing and Engineering Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology Saad Mekhilef, Distinguished Professor in Electrical Renewable Energy, Swinburne University of Technology Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

California and Quebec on Wednesday said they will hold a joint workshop next month to discuss potential amendments to strengthen the jurisdictions’ linked cap-and-trade systems.

A global fintech company on Wednesday announced its latest contribution of $2.35 million towards climate change solutions, with the money collected from an internal carbon tax that it prefers over an offsetting model for its voluntary climate action.

Campaigners slammed Chevron’s use of “junk” carbon credits and “unviable” technologies in a report published on Wednesday, honing in on the oil major's heavy use of units stemming from large hydropower dams while piggybacking on others' criticism. 

A five-year ocean expedition set sail on Wednesday under National Geographic Pristine Seas that will see a team of international experts promote ocean protection in the tropical Pacific, providing video links to underwater landscapes and supporting local conservation efforts.

Using carbon markets to fund the global transition away from coal-fired power generation will require a carbon credit price of at least $10-20, but likely much higher, a conference heard on Wednesday.